The substance that wasn’t there

I promised to write more about the State Of The Union address, but upon reading the transcript, there was only one subject that caught my attention and I already wrote about that. However a number of really important topics were completely left out of the speech so Bush could talk about subway heroes and other feel-good topics.

Bush’s proposed funding of $1.6B “Of Additional New Funding Over Ten Years For Energy Innovation, Including Bio-Energy Research, Energy Efficiency Grants” is actually $.4B less than the current budget for this funding. (I admit I am not sure of the accuracy (nor the source) of previous the number.) Given the perspective of what is being spent in a certain misadventure, even the previous amount is paltry and inadequate … not to mention we don’t know how much of it would/will go to no-bid contracts…